It’s not every day that a band can claim to have not one, but two Guinness World Records. Earlier this week, were presented with the awards for the success of their 2003 anthem , which has been sitting in the charts for more amount of time than any other song in history. Love them or hate them, the Las Vegas indie rockers certainly have the magic touch when it comes to producing timeless tunes.
“It’s infectious still to us,” says frontman Brandon Flowers, speaking of the floor-filling track. “I know some people can’t wrap their head around it, but you’ll see the response [when you see it live].” The response to the song at The Killers’ final show of their 6-date London occupancy of the O2 Arena is unsurprisingly earth-shaking, as the packed-out floor jumps in one large, hollering mass.
But, it’s not just that has the venue bursting at its seams; far from it, with the night serving as a stellar showcase of their 2023 career-spanning greatest hits album, Tonight’s setlist is wall-to-wall absolute bangers, including and so on, but The Killers have so many classics that the sheer volume of them have been spread out across practically a week’s worth of (almost fully) sold-out performances, with each night presenting a roulette of their much-loved catalogue. It’s a meticulously-executed Las Vegas-style residency that’s as glitz and glam as the real thing, with the venue itself taking on the form of a casino, a gaudy geometric carpet wrapping the stage an.